Climate Action for (My) Children
dc.contributor.author | Fornwagner, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Hauser, OP | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-18T07:48:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | How do we motivate cooperation across the generations—between parents and children? Here we study voluntary climate action (VCA), which is costly to today’s decision-makers but essential to enable sustainable living for future generations. We predict that “offspring observability” is critical: parents will be more likely to invest in VCA when their own offspring observes their action, whereas when adults or genetically unrelated children observe them, the effect will be smaller. In a large-scale lab-in-the-field experiment, we observe a remarkable magnitude of VCA: parents invest 82% of their 69€ endowment into VCA, resulting in almost 14,000 real trees being planted. Parents’ VCA varies across conditions, with the largest treatment effect occurring when a parent’s own child is the observer. In subgroup analyses, we find that larger treatment effects occur among parents with a high school diploma. Our findings have implications for policy-makers interested in designing programs to encourage voluntary climate action and sustaining intergenerational public goods. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 November 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10640-021-00620-7 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127488 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer / European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/2kdgz/?view_only=118e3af382284948835e8e66b4d1f451 | |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |
dc.subject | children | en_GB |
dc.subject | intergenerational cooperation | en_GB |
dc.subject | lab-in-the-field experiment | en_GB |
dc.subject | observability | en_GB |
dc.subject | parents | en_GB |
dc.subject | voluntary climate action | en_GB |
dc.title | Climate Action for (My) Children | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-18T07:48:07Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0924-6460 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: All data and documentation used in the analysis will be shared after publication at https://osf.io/2kdgz/?view_only=118e3af382284948835e8e66b4d1f451. | |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental and Resource Economics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-10-18 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-10-18 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-10-15T20:18:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-12-02T13:24:50Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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